A 12-year-old school boy has been praised after it emerged he was the person who found a missing six-year-old boy.

Last week the Somerset Standard told the story of Connor Griffiths who jumped out of his ground floor bedroom window to go on a little adventure.

The Hayesdown First School pupil went missing from his home in St Johns Road, Frome, for more than an hour after being sent to his room for being naughty.

We told how he walked to his father's home and then back into town, more than a mile from his house and was eventually discovered in a shop in the Westway Precinct.

The manager of the Westway Precinct, Kay Chapman, contacted the Somerset Standard, to tell us that it was 12-year-old Zac Reed who found Connor and brought him into the British Heart Foundation charity shop.

She said: "I wanted to praise Zac for his efforts in finding the little boy.

"What he did was fantastic and he deserves all the credit in the world.

"Who knows what could have happened if it hadn't been for his quick actions."

Zac was in the charity shop with his mother, Ruth Hagley Reed, when he overheard a radio message about the missing lad.

He said to his mother that he had just seen a little boy similar in the precinct and went off to see if he could find him.

Within minutes the Writhlington School pupil returned with Connor, who was oblivious to the search going on around him.

Zac said: "I thought I'd seen him a few minutes before we walked into the shop but didn't really think anything of it.

"It was only when I overheard the message that I thought I'd go and see if it was him.

"I went into Ellenbray Press and found him looking at Lego.

"I asked him if his name was Connor and if he lived in St Johns Road, when he said he did I told him he had been reported missing and asked him to come with me to the charity shop."

Minutes later the security guard, Tim Fielding and the police arrived and took the boy home.

Zac said: "Anything could have happened and I am quite proud that I found him."

And Zac's mother, Ruth, said she is very proud of him also.

She said: "After it all happened I took Zac for a big ice cream, he is a very astute young man and children get quite a bad press so it is great when something like this can be shouted about."